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Thursday, June 21, 2012
 
Lots of wisecracks today about how Apple fanboys think that Apple invented tablets in 2010 (by making a huge...
Lots of wisecracks today about how Apple fanboys think that Apple invented tablets in 2010 (by making a huge friggin' phone [2]), but how Microsoft actually invented tablets in 2002. Then SJMN has a good deeper article how in 1991 Microsoft released "Windows for Pen Computing" add-on to Win 3.1 [1], following other companies' work in "late 1980's"

http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_20888392/microsofts-long-and-tortured-history-tablets

I don't suffer from amnesia, like so many others, but I came to USA in 1992, so that's the limit of my personal recollections. As always, wikipedia to rescue:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_tablet_computers

1956 was the first publicly demonstrated system using a tablet and handwriting text recognition. In 1987 Apple Computer started its tablet project, eventually releasing Apple Newton in 1993. That's the first one I actually played with at that time. The earliest I owned (and it is still in good working condition) is Palm III from early 1999.

[1] updated for Win95 in 1995, superseded in 2002 by WinXP Tablet PC Edition, later carried forward in Vista and Win7.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_for_Pen_Computing
The Surface Pro, running full Windows 8

[2] Note that Microsoft made a small computer instead, running Win8Pro, which will run most software compatible with previous versions of Windows.
http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_20888392/microsofts-long-and-tortured-history-tablets

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